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Summary of the impact

Senior managers in agencies in contact with children are frequently
criticised, particularly in reports following child deaths, for failing to
facilitate collaborative working to safeguard children. Yet, developing
and sustaining collaborative systems is not easy. To assist managers,
Horwath and Morrison developed a conceptual framework and, in
collaboration with policy-makers and managers in Wales, added standards
and indicators. These combine to form the building blocks likely to create
a safe, multidisciplinary, child protection system. Their research has:

Impacted on the development of multidisciplinary safeguarding
partnerships in a number of countries.

Enabled policy makers and senior managers to measure system
improvements.

Informed statutory guidance.

Submitting Institution

University of Sheffield

Unit of Assessment

Social Work and Social Policy

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Public Health and Health ServicesStudies In Human Society: Policy and Administration, Social Work

Summary of the impact

A long-term research programme into landslides and rockfalls by DU
researchers, focused on the use of novel field and laboratory techniques,
has had impact on UK and foreign government authorities, NGOs, and
businesses. The work has provided frameworks for managing hazard
associated with deep-seated landslides in New Zealand and a
landslide-dammed lake in northern Pakistan. Research on coastal cliff
erosion in North Yorkshire has provided critical support for high-value
mining activities at the UK's largest non-hydrocarbon extractive mine, and
has underpinned local government strategies for shoreline hazard
assessment and management.